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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR \V. BERNE, OF NEWV ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO BROWNLEE \V. TAYLOR, OF SAME PLACE.

PASSENG ER-FARE COLLECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 1\To.4=14,185, dated. November 5, 1889. Application filed February 25, 1889- Serial No. 301,157. (No model) T at whom it may concern: backed by a spring a, which normally holds Be it known that I, ARTHUR IVELLESLY the valve closed within the case. At the BERNE, a citizen of the United States, residpoint of entrance of the valve D the case is ing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans slotted, so as to permitthe said valve to freely 5 and State of Louisiana, have invented cermove therein when manipulated by the fintain new and useful Improvements in Auger lever E. tomatic Passenger-Fare Collectors; and I do G indicates a case, to which is secured the declare the following to be a full, clear, and fare receptacle or bag H, the case Gbeing seexact description of the invention, such as cured removably to the case A by means of 10 will enable others skilled in the art to which a lock or other device, which is to be under it appertains to make and use the same. the control of an officer authorized to remove This invention relates to improvements in the contents and replace the bag at the proper devices for collecting fares from passengers time. on street and railway cars; and it has for its In operation it will be seen that when the I 5 object to provide a device which may be confare has once been deposited by the passenger veniently carried by the conductor or attendin the funnel-shaped entrance of the recepant and presented to each passenger to detacle it will rest upon the plate D, where it posit his fare, the construction being such as may be inspected by the conductor. The leto prevent the conductor from extracting the ver operating the plate D is then depressed 7o 20 fare after it has been deposited by the pasand the coin allowed to drop into the bag or senger, or in any manner tampering with the other receiver. It will be seen that when the device without being detected. coin has once passed the pivoted plate 0 it The novelty will be fully understood from is impossible to remove the same by the funthe following description and claim, taken in nelshaped entrance, as the plate C will fall 2 5 connection with the annexed drawings, in and close the mouth of said entrance as soon which as the collector is inverted. After inspection Figure 1 is a front view of my improved through.the glass F, the conductor simply fare-collector. Fig. 2 is a side view of the presses inwardly the upper end of the lever same, and Figs. 3 and 5 are detail views. E, thereby withdrawing the valve D and al- 30 Referring by letter to the said drawings, lowing the fare to drop into the bag or re- A indicates the main case, which is of a suitceptacle beneath. able length and width, and provided at its Having described my invention, what I upper end with a funnel-shaped entrance B, claim is adapted to permit the entrance of a coin or As an improved article of manufacture, 3 5 ticket. This case is provided in its face the fare-collector described, consisting of the with a glass panel F, whereby the conductor case A, having the funnel-shaped entrance B a.

may inspect the fare after it has been deposat its upper end, the tilting plate 0, arranged ited by the passenger and before dropping within the case and below the funnel-shaped it into the receptacle beneath. entrance, the pivoted lever E, the valve D, 0 4o lVithin the case A, and slightly below the secured to the lower end of the lever and discharge-point of the funnelshaped enpassing into the case, the case G, removably trance, is a plate C, which is pivoted so that secured to the lower end of the case A, the when the device has been inverted the said bag II, secured to the case G, and the glass plate will close the lower end of the funnel faceplate F, secured in the case A, substan- 45 B and prevent the extraction of the said fare tially as specified.

from the same entrance of the case after In testimony whereofIaffix my signature in once being deposited. At a suitable point presence of two witnesses. beneath the plate 0 is a plate or valve D, ARTHUR \V. BERNIE. which is secured to the lower end of a finger \Vitnesses:

50 or thumb lever E. This lever E, which is L. ADAMS,

pivoted to the side of the case, as shown, is HELM'U'TH IIOLTZ. 

